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First, thanks for looking to sponsor my work!
My name is Sven, the human behind „Arctic Ice Studio”.
I'm a passionate open source developer & designer and the creator of „Nord“ — An arctic, north-bluish color palette.
I started to explore the fascinating world of bits & bytes back in 2004 and since then I enjoy every minute working on open source projects and being part of this fantastic community.

My main focus is to develop, maintain and enhance Nord, currently consisting of more than 35 repositories with over one million downloads spread across many platforms, as well as building applications and sites with Go and React like snowsaw and the official Nord website and documentations.

Nord was born as a small color palette, designed to fill the gap for a palette that matches my preferences and tastes, and has grown into a really large and broadly used project with more than 3000 🌟 stars on GitHub. Today you can choose from a broad and constantly growing spectrum of port projects to unify the appearance of your favorite applications.
It was published to give something back to the great open source community and has built its own Nord community around itself.

Maintaining Nord now requires a lot of work and energy, but its amazing to see all these great contributions from the community making it better day-by-day. In the future, Nord's official project blog will be populated with news, insides, documentations and road maps to interact even more with community. I've a future plan and a lot of ideas to bring Nord to more platforms and to make the project more open and easy to enjoy and contribute to.

Building polished open source projects takes a large amount of time and effort and is often difficult to combine with a full-time developer job and the daily „real-life” tasks. Although open source has became a great part of my day, it's not the most important part and everyone should ensure to keep the work/life balance to prevent a burnout.

I would love the opportunity to shift more time for Nord with all of its port projects as well as open source libraries, applications and tools written in Go and JavaScript (TypeScript) with React.

My goal with GitHub Sponsors is to spend more time maintaining all my projects, continue developing new projects and actively contribute back to the awesome open source community.

Your sponsorship will support the development and health of your favorite projects to continue being maintained. It will help to cover costs for project domains, hosting, automation and technical equipment.
Becoming a sponsor confirms that my work really matters to you and is an excellent way to give back to the projects you're using every day.
As I do all of this in my free time, it is important to keep the work/life balance in order to prevent a burnout and a sponsorship helps to spend time for „off-screen” activities with my family and friends.

Finally I'd like to thank you in advance for supporting me, whether through contributions, feedback or a sponsorship.

22 sponsors have funded arcticicestudio’s work.

@curtismckee
@obahareth
@insunaa
@kzh
@mariojackson
@rwev
@juliojordan
@TBVanderley4545
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@dirsigler
@davidmytton
@jan-xyz
@saccarosium
@auguwu
@hiwijaya
@woosal1337
@jeffchasin
@ankitsxchdeva
@tkono1
@icco
@chreinhardt
@brieucdlf

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$ a month

You'll receive any rewards listed in the $10 monthly tier. Additionally, a Public Sponsor achievement will be added to your profile.

$5 a month

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Thank you so much for supporting my open source work 💙
You value the free time I spend to develop and maintain your favorite open source projects.

Your sponsorship helps me to get my daily „coffee dose” ☕ that boosts and powers my work 😄

Next to this you'll receive…

  • …a „Sponsor” badge for your GitHub profile.
  • …email newsletters with updates, insides and project/development status.
  • …my gratitude. Thank you!

$10 a month

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Thank you so much for supporting my open source work 💙
You value the free time I spend to develop and maintain your favorite open source projects.

Your sponsorship helps to cover the costs for my projects like domains, hosting and infrastructure.
It ensures I can pay for online services to listen to my favorite music while coding and during sports 🎶

Next to this you'll receive…

  • …all previous tier rewards.
  • …priority support for issues in any of my GitHub repositories.

$20 a month

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Thank you so much for supporting my open source work 💙
You value the free time I spend to develop and maintain your favorite open source projects.

Your sponsorship helps me pay for software I use to make projects or upgrade my GitHub account to the „Pro” plan for better development features.

Next to this you'll receive…

  • …all previous tier rewards.
  • …early-access to private repositories for future OSS projects, normally I don't publish projects until they are usable.

$50 a month

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Thank you so much for supporting my open source work 💙
You value the free time I spend to develop and maintain your favorite open source projects.

Your sponsorship really helps me to keep my work/life balance as well as also sponsoring other awesome projects I use every day ❤️

Next to this you'll receive…

  • …all previous tier rewards.
  • …prioritization of a feature that you need in my projects or a new Nord port for one of your favorite applications.

$100 a month

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Thank you so much for supporting my open source work 💙
You value the free time I spend to develop and maintain your favorite open source projects.

This sponsorship is mainly aimed at companies that like to support my projects or using it for their products.

Next to this you'll receive…

  • …all previous tier rewards.
  • …development of a new Nord port project for one of your products.